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Please consider supporting your local bookstore by ordering the book there. I am not posting an Amazon link because I have decided to not actively support the Big River Store anymore ( reasons are given here ).

Aardvarchaeology

Last month the Daily Beast listed archaeology among the thirteen most useless major subjects at US colleges, as measured by employment opportunities and earnings potential. Bradley T. Lepper, curator of archaeology at the Ohio Historical Society, objects .

Last Saturday was the twice-yearly Professional Zooarchaeology Group meeting, this time at Museum of London Archaeology , with the topic Unusual deposits. This included animal burials and associated bone groups, remains from feasting , animal bone in cremations, and other ”ususal” bone assemblages. We also had a galliform identification session, which proved that correctly id’ing fowl and their close relatives can be tricky. Animal burials and their close association associated bone groups (ABGs), are tricky things in zooarchaeology.

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What has happened to the year? I’m not really sure what I’ve done in the last three months. I did NaNoWriMo, and although I didn’t win, writing turns out to be a huge amount of fun and I’m going to keep doing it. Maybe my ~creative energies~ have recharged, or maybe I’m just getting my act together, but I’ve got a lot of ideas lately and I’m drawing again, and getting a start on some other things I’ve been meaning to do in my copious free time. Endless leisure is still not my favourite situation to be in, though, and so far there’s been no success in the jobsearch.

A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe

Cover of James Fraser's From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 When I first conceived my research interest, such as it be, in Pictish Scotland, one of the things I thought that the field sorely needed was a new and sincere attempt to write the period’s narrative history, not pulling the punches about the difficulties of the sources but convinced all the same that they could be used to mount some kind of story. Instead, we had Alfred Smyth’s Warlords and Holy Men , which while stimulating can also be extremely misleading and by its very title contributes to a conception of Scotland as a Celtic strangeness, whereas the field has for the last few years been trying very much to link Scotland and Pictland up to the wider world of Church, art and politics in which they clearly participated. 1 I actually determined that I would some day write such a book, since I didn’t see anyone else who thought it feasible.